This blog addresses the fatal flaw at the core of capitalism as a system of human psycho-socio-political-economic collective self-reproduction, a flaw which ultimately renders it a self-DIS-organizing, self-destroying system -- as is becoming increasingly evident. It also details the successor system to capitalism, the new system that represents the higher, positive way forward for humanity: Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY, or EQUITISM.

“¿What makes you think that
socialism / communism could still work without it ending with a totalitarian
state?”

I replied approximately as follows --

“GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.All of those regimes that OP “Dr. Jordan B.
Peterson” cites in his post are actually cases of capitalism --
STATE-capitalism -- not of “socialism” or “communism” as described by
Marx.These pure-state-bureaucratic
ruling-class, ‘proto-state-capitalist’ regimes all arose in countries where the
industrial social forces of production, and the wage-working-class, were
profoundly underdeveloped.Hence, per
Marx’s theory, those countries could not even be eligible for, or capable of,
socialism as Marx defined it.What those
“semi-peripheral” countries were ripe for was, in effect, a transition into
industrial [state-]capitalism, via a new version of the violent and bloody
“primitive accumulation” of capital, such as had already occurred earlier in
the capitalist core -- Western Europe and North America [e.g., via the vile and
bloody-violent institutions of mass agricultural slavery and indentured
servitude].

The so-called “communist” revolutions, in these
capitalistically-underdeveloped, semi-peripheral countries, were, of necessity,
violent and bloody affairs, led by putschist, neo-Jacobin parties, homologous
to the bloody revolutions that created the transition to CAPITALISM in 1789
France, and resulted in a destruction of whatever vestiges of the rule of law
remained in those countries, and the installation of a one party police-state
dictatorship OVER what little there was left of an industrial wage working
class there.

“Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts
absolutely”.The total lack of “checks
and balances” against the power of the Lenino-Stalinoid absolute state guaranteed
the absolute corruption of that state, and a regime of violent, bloody tyranny
over the developing working class in those nations.

Karl Marx described communism, in “the Grundrisse” -- an
1857+ massive manuscript that became the first of several drafts toward Marx’s
“Critique of Political Economy” as a whole, of which “Das Kapital” -- all four
of its volumes -- forms but the first part of SIX planned parts -- as growing
out of the seeds of political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY already present within capitalism,
in the form of “share capital”, e.g., in the CAPITAL EQUITY stock principle of
“one share, one vote”.This principle,
Marx predicted, would become generalized in the transition from capitalism to
its “lawful” higher successor system, that of the democratically “associated
producers”:“Sharecapital ... is the
most perfect form (assuming the character of communism), together with all its contradictions.”
[Marx, Grundrisse]

In “Das Kapital”, volume III, Marx describes the transition
to communism -- as to how the embryo of communism forms within the womb of
capitalism -- in terms of workers-owned capital, e.g., democratically
worker-managed producers’ cooperatives, part of the stage that my associates
and I call “workers’ capitalism”, which is a growing, though vastly
under-reported, development today, in the U.S., in Spain, and in many other
nations-states within the geographical core of capitalism.

After the Paris Commune, Marx declared, as a democratic key
to communism, the principle that worker-elected worker’s representatives to all
governing bodies must be mandated and recallable by those that they represent,
and paid, for their services of representation, no more than the average
worker’s wage.

Marx also stated that, in nation-states where representative
democracy, with workers’ suffrage [workers having voting rights], had been
achieved, the transition to communism could typically be accomplished without
violent revolution, via the ballot box, within the rule of law.

We see the constitution of a rule-of-law, democratic
transition to real communism -- to ‘Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY’ -- as arising
via the popular recognition, and, later, via the constitutional establishment,
of three newly-discerned human rights which are fundamental to the protection
and flourishing of human individuals, and of humane society as a whole, in
advanced modern society.They are --

A.The human right of
‘CITIZEN EXTERNALITY EQUITY’.This right
enables citizens to vote for ‘‘‘public directors’’’, forming second boards of
directors, or second management committees, INSIDE each of the local operating
units of companies which produce and accumulate “externalities” -- e.g., deadly
pollution -- in those citizens’ local communities.These ‘boards of public directors’ negotiate
with the private directors/managers to reduce their annual operating plan
budgets of pollution, etc., “external costs”, with recourse to a popularly
elected “Tribunal for Externality Equity” if negotiations deadlock, and with
fees imposed for any external cost production still allowed in those annual
externalities budgets.This human right,
of “grass roots regulation”, supplements external regulatory bureaucracies,
typically “captured” and prostituted by the industries that they were supposed
to regulate, and also civil court litigation against deadly polluters, where
deep-pocketed industries can usually defeat underfunded citizen/worker law
suits.

B.The human right of
‘CITIZEN BIRTHRIGHT EQUITY’ [‘societal self-investment’].Every child born under this new, Equitarian
constitution and Bill Of Rights will be a “trust fund baby”, in that each
new-born citizen will be granted, funded partly by ‘Citizen Externality Equity’
pollution fees, partly by ‘Citizen Stewardship Equity social rents’, a lifetime
fund, an ‘absolutely-portable’ PERSONAL, INDIVIDUAL-social-safety-net -- with
legislated restraints on its expenditure, to check the “moral hazard” potential
of such a fund -- to eventually cover all of the basic necessities of human
life-opportunity:health care,
college/trade education, first home purchase, business formation funding, and
reparations to victims in the event of conviction for a crime, etc. -- so that
every child born has a stake in society -- has “skin in the game” -- and so
that society has an investment in every child born, regardless of “what side of
the tracks” that citizen was born on.Should an individual’s fund be exhausted, e.g., due to serial criminal
conviction reparations to victims, then that individual would fall back on more
meager external social welfare provisions.

C.The human right of
‘CITIZEN STEWARDSHIP EQUITY’.Lack of
access to means of production renders workers victims and playthings of the
whims, and of the “lawful” depredations, of the owners of capital.This human right provides workers with the
option of ‘collective self-employment’, via a policy of ‘ public venture
“capital” ’, supporting ‘collective entrepreneurship’ and ‘collective
innovation’.The Office of a popularly
elected national Custodian of Social Property grants charters to
per-legislation-qualifying citizen collectives, which then become Social Banks,
also organized as democratically self-managed ‘Citizen Stewardship Equity’
cooperatives of a special kind, with each such Social Bank granted an equitable
allocation of credits for the procurement of means of production.The Social Banks compete for the most
perceivably-viable among other citizens’ self-organized collectives, that have
per-legislation-qualifying business-plans, whose qualifications include By-Law
requirements for internal democratic election/recall of their management teams,
which, once their business plans are funded by a Social Bank, become
‘socialized producers’ cooperatives’.To
survive, these ‘socialized producers’ cooperatives’ must prove themselves in
market competition against other socialized producers’ cooperatives, and
against remaining private capitalist firms, etc., that produce for the same
market(s).The ‘Citizen Stewardship Equity
socialized producers’ cooperatives’ do not collectively or privately “own” the
means of production granted to them by the ‘Social Bank’ that backs them, and
by the national Custodian of Social Property.Those means of production are ‘‘‘Social Property’’’.The Citizen Stewardship cooperatives do have
stewardship over those means of production, a fact manifested in the ‘social
rents’ that they must pay, monthly, to the Office of the Custodian of Social
Property.These ‘social rents’ provide
income to the ‘Social Banks’ that backed these co-ops, and also help to fund
the ‘Citizen Birthright Equity socialized Trust Funds’, as well as to fund
means of production procurement for new ‘Stewardship Cooperatives’, to finance
‘technodepreciation insurance’, etc.

There has been a largely-successful ‘conspiracy among
opponents’ -- an ‘antagonistic cooperation’ -- between the unelected real
rulers of “western” [state-]capitalism, and those of “eastern”,
state-bureaucratic, Lenino-Stalinoid STATE-capitalism, to pass off the
pure-state-bureaucratic-ruling-class-dominated, totalitarian police-state
mass-murder regimes of “Soviet” Russia, Stalinist China, etc., as
“Communism”.In fact, they present
nothing at all like the ‘Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY’ that Marx predicted.They actually represent special, transient
forms of Orwellian [proto-]State-CAPITALISM, so that a form of CAPITALISM is
being fraudulently passed-off as Marxian communism!

Most people today, when they hear “Communism”, actually
think pure-state-bureaucratic State-CAPITALISM [as distinct from FASCISM or
NAZIISM, a form of State-Capitalism in which the private-capital-owning ruling
class is still either prominent or largely in-charge].THIS IS THE BIGGEST “BAIT-AND-SWITCH” FRAUD
IN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY TO-DATE!!!And
it has been co-perpetrated by the “western” capitalist ruling class [e.g., the
Rockefeller-eugenics, “people are pollution” political machine], and the
Lenino-Trotskyoid, Lenino-Stalinoid, and Stalino-Maoid “MarxIST” PSEUDO-Marxian
state-bureaucratic ruling classes!

Toward the end of his life, Marx foresaw, via his in depth
study of capitalist political economy, and of Russia in particular, etc., e.g.,
as he wrote in his draft letters to Vera Zasulich, and in the Preface to the
latter edition of “Das Kapital”, that social revolution was historically
imminent in Russia [Marx died in 1883.The ‘“first modern Russian revolution’’’ erupted in 1905, 22 years
later].

He wrote that, if the Russian Revolution was accompanied by
a revolution in the capitalist West, e.g., in Germany, and throughout Western
Europe, so that the advanced productive forces [‘‘‘productivity’’’] extant
there could facilitate accelerated development of the social forces of
production [‘‘‘productivity’’’] in Russia, then Russia could escape the
violence and the other horrors of capitalist development -- including of the
“primitive accumulation” of industrial capital -- and accede more or less
directly from the remnants of primitive communism still then-extant in Russia,
to the “higher communism” that would then also emerge in Europe, and, later,
worldwide.

In this passage, Marx did not explicitly predict what would
ensue if the Russian Revolution was isolated in Russia, and surrounded by
hostile still-capitalist European and other powers.But the latter is exactly what did happen,
with WWI and the eruption of the ‘‘‘second modern Russian revolution’’’ in
1917, and the defeat of the 1918 revolutions in Germany and elsewhere.

Thus, Russia could not escape the horrors of the “primitive
accumulation” of industrial capital, which was made even more horrendous by the
desperation of the Leninoid state-bureaucratic ruling class to crash-develop a
“military-industrial complex” [cf. Eisenhower], so as to deter further
invasions by, and “save its ass” from, the encircling hostile
private-capitalist forces, hell-bent on snuffing out both the Leninist ruling
class, and the real remnants of the “Soviet” [i.e., the democratic “workers’
councils”] revolution.

Lenino-Stalinoid State-CAPITALISM became a new pathway for
the horrific “primitive accumulation” of industrial capital in the
underdeveloped, imperialized semi-periphery of the core capitalist system --
centered in Western Europe and North America -- a State-CAPITALISM falsely
labeled “Communism” by both its Western enemies and its Lenino-Stalinoid
promoters and beneficiaries.

The OP’s post calls to my mind the “dialectical theory of
everything” developed by a group that is relentlessly carrying forward Marx’s,
unfinished, work [by which I do NOT mean the state-bureaucratic ruling-class,
dictatorial perversions of the Leninist, Trotskyist, Stalinist, Maoist, ...,
Castroist, IList, and Unist state-CAPITALIST ideologues, fraudsters, and mass
murderers] in the five key domains which Marx and Engels were not able to bring
to fruition before their deaths.

Those unfinished domains of Marxian theory and practice
include --

(1) that of the detailed nature of the Marxian dialectic
method;

(2) that of the dialectic of Nature, and of the Marxian
immanent critique of the ideology that pervasively compromises the modern
sciences, including, not just the economic and other social sciences, but the
natural sciences and mathematics as well;

(3) clarification, including clear and ‘quanto-qualitative’
definition, of the central Marxian concept of “the social forces of production”
-- of ‘the human-societal self-force of acceleratedly-expanding human-societal
self-re-production’ -- in relation to a ‘Meta-Darwinian’ concept of
human-species ‘‘‘fitness’’’ in terms of the rate of human-societal
self-reproduction, as well as the interrelated clarification of the core
Marxian concept of “the social relations of production”, e.g., of the
“capital-relation”, of the “money-relation”, of the “commodity-relation”, etc.This ‘Meta-Darwinian’ theory recognizes the
role of ‘the human PHENome’ as well as of the ‘‘‘the human GENome’’’ in
increasing the ‘self-force’, and thereby the rate of ‘self-production’, of
human society in accelerated expanded social self-reproduction;

(4) that of the detailed nature of the liberatory,
Political-ECONOMIC-DEMOCRATIC society -- founded upon the new, unprecedented
social relation of production, of ‘Generalized Equity’ -- which is the “lawful”
higher successor system to present, descendent-phase [State-]Capitalism;

(5) that of the detailed causation-dynamics of the
ever-worsening catastrophic global economic depression-crises, wars, and
genocides that advise us all of the growing need for us to transcend
[state-]capitalism, by creating that successor system, of grass roots
Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY.

Thursday, June 14, 2018

¿What is
the key to dialectic -- theessence of categorial, historicaldialectic -- asseenbyWe
of F.E.D.?

It is that the second category, the
«arithmos» of
the second kind,
is rooted in thefirstcategory/«arithmos».Itsunits
are sourced in
an‘intra-duality’, in a‘self-duality’, in animmanent, internalopposition; in a‘‘‘self-opposition’’’ -- in apotentialityor‘‘‘energizingprinciple’’’ -- that is ineluctablyinherentin, andpresentin, the first category, the «arithmos» of theunits/«monads» of the first kind, itself.

The
second category is born out of, asa
[self-]development of, the first category.

The
second category is notinexplicablyandarbitrarilyposited from, as it were,‘‘‘outsidethe universe’’’ -- from someunexplained‘externity’
-- in absoluteexternality with respect to the first category.

The first
category, due
toits own,
‘intra-duality’-drivendevelopment, beyondacertainthreshold in thatself-development,
“begets”theunits/«monads» of thesecondcategory; disgorgesand‘ecloses’them.This is ‘‘‘«[auto-]diairesis»’’’.

Then, later,
the thirdcategory is born out of the interaction of some of the units of thefirstcategorywithsome of theunits
of the second category;
by theresultingfusion, or‘ontologicalhybridization’, of some of theunits of each of thefirsttwocategories.

The units/«monads» of thethirdcategory/«arithmos»/kind-- the «arithmos» of theunits/«monads» of the third kind -- are ontologicallydifferentfrom, andmorecomplexthan, the units of the firstcategory, andeven the units of the second category, becauseitsunits/«monads» are combinationsof the units/«monads» of the second category/kindwiththe units/«monads» of the first category/kind.This is ‘‘‘«synagôgê»’’’.

Monday, June 11, 2018

I want to share with you, in this blog-entry, the concise “Working
Definition” of the term ‘‘‘Dialectical’’’
from our
forthcoming Encyclopedia Dialectica [E.D.], volume 0,
entitled ‘Encyclopedic Dictionary for a Unified Theory of Universal
Dialectics’.

“Dialectical=an adjective that we
use, throughout the volumes of this Encyclopedia, for describing
processes which involve internal opposition -- ‘self-opposition’,
‘self-antithesis’, ‘intra-duality’, ‘self-duality’, internal
‘‘‘contradiction’’’, or ‘‘‘self-contradiction’’’ -- within the meaning and/or
within the physical processes encompassed by a given initial category,
followed, incrementally, by externalization of that internal opposition, into
an external opposition between two qualitatively distinct categories, typically
as generated by an ‘auto-«aufheben»’ operation, followed, incrementally, by a
reconciliation of that externalized internal-/self-opposition with its source,
in the form of the irruption of a third category, typically through a mutual ‘allo-«aufheben»’ operation of
the externally-opposing/qualitatively-distinct categories-pair.Higher ‘self-iterations’ of this
kind of process may ensue, with either the second or the third category of the initial
‘self-iteration’ taking on a ‘‘‘self-similar’’’ role to that of the given first
category, but at a higher level/scale of
operation/complexity/‘‘‘determinateness’’’.”

Much of the work of Karl Seldon, and of his collaborators,
including work by “yours truly”, is available for free-of-charge download via
--

Wednesday, June 06, 2018

Karl Seldon recently shared with me, as
well as with others
of the Foundation,
the following remarks, on the topic of state-capitalism [This transcript has been edited, for emphasis, by me, not, as has usually been the case
in this blog, by the F.E.D. Special Council for the Encyclopedia].

He said --

“Stalinist[, Leninist, Maoist, etc.] [proto-]State-Capitalism -- i.e., the “pure”
state-bureaucratic ruling class species of capitalism -- is not an alternative to “private”
capitalism, or to “public”, joint-stock capitalism.”

“That
State-Capitalism is not
a “supersession” of [“private”, and/or of
“public”, joint-stock] capitalism.”

“That
State-Capitalism is not
a “successor system” to [“private”, and/or to
“public”, joint-stock] capitalism.”

“That
State-Capitalism is nothing more than a prevenient, ‘semi-peripheral’,
disfigured prefigurement of the “lawful” ultimate destiny of core capitalism
itself, and, indeed, of all of capitalism as a whole itself.”

“That “lawful”
destiny of capitalism as a whole is, namely, police-state, totalitarian, ‘humanocidal’,
Orwellian -- ‘‘‘hell on Earth’’’ -- ‘national super-corporation’
state-capitalisms, in contrived, ‘humanocidal’, global “permanent war” [cf. George Orwell] among themselves, and in
global ‘permanent depression’ economically and psychologically, while the
waning species of humanity lasts, and secretly ruled by a single, global,
ultra-vicious, “eugenicist”, Malthusian ruling class, one which is a hybrid of
elements of the concentrated “private” capital-owning national ruling classes
of the old capitalist core, and/with formerly hostile elements of the ‘semi-peripheral’
national[ist] state-bureaucratic, oligarchic, plutocratic ruling classes, both,
in their separation, belonging to the earlier phase of capitalism, as well as with surviving elements of feudal -- theocratic and crypto-landed-aristocratic -- plutocratic classes, that were only partially defeated, as ruling classes, by the rising industrial capitalist classes of the emergent capitalist core.”

“It is the
‘‘‘political-economic law of motion of modern society’’’ [cf. Karl Marx], in terms of the collective will
of this descendence-phase ruling class, a will that is psychohistorically driven
by the sociopathic logic of the “capital-relation” [Marx] as predominant “social relation of production” [Marx], that ‘‘‘ascendence-phase’’’ capitalism
will, at length, descend and degenerate into the ‘‘‘New Dark Age’’’ of a global,
‘‘‘Orwellian’’’ system of police-state, totalitarian, [eu]genocidal-‘humanocidal’ state-capitalisms.This
means a global horror-regime
of state-capitalist nation-states, and multi-nation-state blocs thereof [cf. George Orwell], in permanent mobilization
for mass-murder, globally.”

“This
degeneration will continue, and will worsen, up to and including the
‘self-extinction’ of the Terran human species -- unless or until the world
working class acts successfully, especially
electorally, to terminate this degeneration, and to
launch a global, ‘‘‘grassroots’’’, ‘Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY’, and, with
it, a ‘Global Renaissance’ of humanity.”

“Such a ‘Global
Renaissance’ can only be based upon an accelerated re-advancement of the
“social forces of production” [Marx],
and upon the emergence, and constitutional, juridical adoption, of the new
“social relation of production”, beyond the “capital-relation”, that is
appropriate to that re-advancement of ‘the societal self-re-productive societal
self-force of humanity’.”

“The course of
the planetary historical development of ‘‘‘human Nature’’’ that this “law of
motion” describes is driven -- causally, psychohistorically -- by the growing
consolidation, centralization, and concentration of capital ownership wealth in
ever fewer hands as the capital accumulation process progresses, coupled with
the ‘technodepreciation’ ‘‘‘fatal flaw’’’ of the capitalist system -- the
accelerating “technological obsolescence depreciation”, or “moral depreciation”
[Marx], of accumulated, concentrated-ownership
fixed capital plant and equipment.”

“The latter
drives the historic shift in the ‘capital as self-expanding value # capital as self-contracting value’ ‘self-duality’,
or ‘‘‘internal/self-contradiction’’’, of capital-value, from the dominance of the
LHS [Left-Hand Side] of the forgoing
contradiction[#]-relation
expression, to the dominance of its RHS [Right-Hand
Side], that also creates the transition from the global ‘‘‘ascendence
phase’’’ to the global ‘‘‘descendence phase’’’ of the capitalist system, with
its pivot circa1900 C.E./B.U.E.”

Monday, June 04, 2018

GLOBAL STRATEGIC
HYPOTHESES.Karl
Seldon recently shared with me, and with others
of the Foundation,
the following remarks, on the topic of human solidarity [This transcript has been edited by me, not by the Special Council for the Encyclopedia].

He said --

“It is their [indicating the formerly dominant ruling class faction
that we call ‘TheRocke-Nazis’,
now under counter-attack by the Trump faction of the ruling class] plan to treat all of [the rest of] humankind the way that theirHitler regime [MD:The regime
of their
erstwhile German ‘Servant-Dictatorship’, later, circa1939, turned ‘Franken-Dictatorship’] treated the
European Jews [in their planned ‘‘‘Globalization’’’ of their“FINALSOLUTION” TOTHE[IR] “JEWISH PROBLEM”,which we call their“FINALSOLUTION” TOTHE[IR] “HUMANITY PROBLEM” -- for more about this,
see my most popular blog-entry
here], ifthey can derail, or
otherwise destroy, the “populist”movements
that have recently irrupted throughout the nation-states of the global
capitalist core, in open, albeit not always in coherent, opposition to their, pseudo-, “progressivism”.”

“Human
solidarity, ‘“the moral fitness to survive”’, ‘the Dialectic of Egoism versus
Altruism’ that we
talk about, all, for the present, come down to this:If each one is trying to sell everyone else
“down the river”, for that one’s own supposed “individual gain”, then we are all going to go down
the drain together, and every“one” is
going to lose.”

“FoundationEncyclopediaDialectica
is grounded upon our commitment to human solidarity, to
working for the good of oneanother --
for the good of all
-- including for the good of ourselves,
as we all
confront the emerging, ‘Meta-Darwinian Planetary Selection Test’of the ‘‘‘fitness’’’
of the Terranhumanspecies.”

“This means
that, first of all, eachoneofus -- I -- must cease allowing
myself to be micro-Balkanized; cease being ‘‘‘divided-and-conquered’’’, by the
clever deceptions of the ruling-class-ruledmassmedia, etc.It means that my, human,
identity -- my self-identification with all of humanity -- must trump my identification with
any and all of my personal [MD:and literally sub-human] sub-classifications --
religious, ethnic, political, etc.”

“Lenin: Empirio-criticism and
historical materialism – part fourteen”

-- and whose posting date was 19 December 2014.

I replied approximately as follows --

“This text calls to my mind the “dialectical theory of everything” developed
by a group that is relentlessly carrying forward Marx’s, unfinished, work [by
which I do NOT mean the state-bureaucratic ruling-class, dictatorial
perversions of the Leninist, Trotskyist, Stalinist, Maoist, …, Castroist, IList,
and Unist state-CAPITALIST ideologues, fraudsters, and mass murderers] in the five
key domains which Marx and Engels were not able to bring to fruition before
their deaths.

Those unfinished domains of Marxian theory and practice include:

(1) that of the detailed nature of the Marxian dialectic method;

(2) that of the dialectic of Nature, and of the Marxian immanent critique of
the ideology that pervasively compromises the modern sciences, including, not
just the economic and other social sciences, but the natural sciences and
mathematics as well;

(3) clarification, including clear and ‘quanto-qualitative’ definition, of
the central Marxian concept of “the social forces of production” — of ‘the
human-societal self-force of human-societal self-re-production’ — in relation
to a ‘Meta-Darwinian’ concept of human-species ‘‘‘fitness’’’ in terms of the
rate of human-societal self-reproduction, as well as the interrelated clarification
of the core Marxian concept of “the social relations of production”, e.g., of
the “capital-relation”, of the “money-relation”, of the “commodity-relation”,
etc. This ‘Meta-Darwinian’ theory recognizes the role of ‘the human Phenome’ as
well as of the ‘the human Genome’ in increasing the ‘self-force’, and thereby
the rate, of the ‘‘‘self-motion’’’ of human society in accelerated expanded
social self-reproduction;

(4) that of the detailed nature of the liberatory,
Political-ECONOMIC-DEMOCRATIC society — founded upon a new, unprecedented
social relation of production — which is the “lawful” higher successor system
to [State-]Capitalism;

(5) that of the detailed causation-dynamics of the ever-worsening
catastrophic global economic depression-crises, wars, and genocides that advise
us all of the growing need for us to transcend [state-]capitalism, by creating
that successor system, of grass roots Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY.

Phil Stanfield, the author of the blog-entry under
discussion, then kindly replied as follows --

“Hello detonacciones, thank you for your comment. I have always had a
particular regard for Lenin’s Materialism and Empirio-criticism. You
write of ‘unfinished domains of Marxian theory and practice’. A key purpose of
my blog is to argue that Marx and his dialectical materialism represent the
most advanced development of a current in thought that began with
Plotinus – a current that, in my view, will always be open to further
development, not least because of the continuing development of technology and
science.”

“I think it is essential that this continuum be recognised for its
further development – hence, from standing on its head (Plotinus through to
Hegel) to standing on its feet (Marx) to a more profound explication of the latter.”

-- to which I responded approximately as follows --

“Hello, philstanfield, and thank you for your reply.”

“Yes, we too see that Marx's dialectical 'psychohistorical materialism', to
remain true to itself, must remain open to further development.”

“It must be so because the development of science ["universal
labor", Marx] and of technology, and of the human praxis surrounding and
appriopriating that technology ["cooperative labor", Marx] -- and the
development of the social forces of production in general -- gives rise to new
'human-social ontology', especially to new/modified 'social relations of
production socio-ontology', and also to new kinds of use-values, and to new
'ideo-ontology' [some of which, especially within the capitalist integument, is
also new IDEOLOGY]; new "memes" added to the human "memes-pool",
i.e., to the 'human PHEnome', as well as to new kinds of means of production.”